The New York Times Crossword

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1 Singer Del Rey

5 Giant walking combat vehicle in “Star Wars” films

9 Stuffs

14 Not just occasionally 15 Blue shade

16 Without backup 17 Poppycock

18 Release, as a song, in

modern lingo

19 “OK, you win” 20 Something directly following a penultimate position — that is to say, diametrically opposed to a primary one

23 Gracefully send away 24 Passing comment? 25 Girl group with the 1999 #1 album “FanMail”

26 90s, say

31 Lie in the sun 34 LiKeaNOveN 36 Demographic figure 37 “Bullet” in a food fight 38 Female kangaroo 39 Golden blades that may be tenderly chew’d by equine or bovine beings

44 None of it is good, as

the saying goes

45 One committing insurance fraud, maybe 46 Prospector’s find 48 ___ Halles (central food market in Paris, once)

49 It may end with a

reality check

53 The cat’s meow, baby.

Dig?

57 Follower of pigs or

cows

58 Be plentiful

59 In perpetuity 60 Country sound 61 Black-and-white swimmer

62 Name meaning “born

again”

63 Shipment

64 Actor Damon

65 Till section

DOWN

1 Drink from a machine 2 Colorful kind of shirt 3 Common congestion

points

4 Figure skater, for one 5 With more of the

same sort

6 Donna ___, 2014 Pulitzer winner for “The Goldfinch” 7 Confess openly 8 Mistakke, of a sort? 9 Agreed to tie the knot 10 North African capital 11 Work

12 “That most odious and antisocial of all passions”: John Stuart Mill

13 Date

21 Pioneering I.S.P. 22 Four-star

26 Wiped out

27 Human rights lawyer

Clooney

28 Number two

29 What crystal jellies do

when disturbed 30 Views

31 ___ Men (one-hit wonder group of

2000)

32 Food thickener 33 Janitor’s janglers 35 Decides

40 Not doing a darn thing 41 Cry toward the end of

a list

42 Source of some omega-3s

43 It may be rolled out

for exercise 44 Competitor of 21

Down

47 Cartoonist Chast 49 Tape recorder button 50 Torn asunder

51 TV producer Chaiken 52 Funerary burners 53 Classic name in audio

equipment 54 Shakespeare character who says “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child!” 55 Model in a science

classroom 56 Computing prefix 57 Alternative to an

ellipsis